[cairo] JIT for pixman

Jeff Muizelaar jeff at infidigm.net
Sun Jan 11 17:57:33 PST 2009


On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:19:12PM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> keita abdoul-kaker wrote:
> > Can't we use a static compiler to all those transformation and
> > optimisation at compile time ?
> 
> Jeff played with that idea.  You can find that in list archives.  IIRC the
> generated binary was huge.  900K larger than current pixman, and I'm sure that
> didn't include code for all the different SIMD architectures.

Yep, even with all the code that was generated it still lacked any
support for any transformations among other things.

-Jeff


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